young lords

young lords

Student Emad Hanna

Digital Media-1 Class

Fall 2016

Final Project

Young Lords

   

     The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and, in New York (notably Spanish Harlem), Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican nationalist group in several United States Cities, notably New York City and Chicago. This picture, before doing any Photoshop editing, was taken in 1969 in New York. It was for a group of revolutionists in New York city belonging to the Young Lords. They were demonstrating against the government which was not collecting the garbage in a timely manner and left the trash decaying in the streets. As a result of these demonstrations, the government intervened and collected the garbage.

      Through the use of Photoshop editing, I imagined that the event that is taking place in the picture was not a real revolution, but a scene from a movie. I also imagined that this scene was filmed in New York City and that this picture we are talking about here was a shot from that scene. Therefore, through Photoshop editing, I added to the picture the photo of a real director who, like the picture, belonged to the fifties era. Therefore, both the original picture and the added photo are in black and white. Adding the photo of the real director makes the picture appear as if it has been taken while this director was shooting a scene from a fake revolution. Finally, adding the photo of the director like that makes the fake revolution in the picture seem as not representing a one that really happened, but as an event that was included in a book authored by the director and which the director was turning to a movie.

A Trip to the Moon

          There have been unmanned landings  on the moon since the early 60's. On the 20th of July 1969, America claimed the first manned mission on the moon. Before that Russian and the United States have been at a race to have the first man on the moon.

          What we didn't know was that these missions have been going on longer than we knew. The "original photo" was actually a retouched version of this photo. It shows the astronauts colonizing the moon and hiding the fact that the moon can sustain life.

Beatles Reunite - Joshua

What if the Beatles reunited after breaking up? After a recording session with John Lennon and Paul Paul McCartney a reuniting was in the talks. They were set to meet and perform and New Orleans, but the show never happened. This picture show cases how it would look like if they met in performed.

MOON

Whats the VMA moon man award doing in the picture?  Good question yes the moon man is the VMAS traditional award given to artists for best music video but the trophy itself is fake but resembles an award.  The decision to substitute the actual astronaut for the moon man is because supposedly the 1969 moon landing was all FAKE and a HOAX.  In my opinion the picture itself was boring so why not add some comedy.  You see Larry holding a picture frame with Neil Armstrong while having the picture fully HD on his TV.  Why? Because he was a huge fan of NASA and a huge fan of Neil Armstrong who motivated him to become a astronaut one day until finding out that all of it was a made up story to win a space race.

JFK @ Love Field

This photograph shows shows President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, and vice Presdient Lyndon B. Johnson arriving at Love Field Airport, moments before his assassinantion. There was about 2,000 people at his arrival from Air Force One, surrounded by 2,000 supporters.
No one in that automobile knew that it would be JFKs finak moment. Through a special type of development process, a science lab was able to find clues that foreshadowed that tragic day. You can see the Grim reaper pictured between President Kennedy and his wife, driven by his helpers in the front and passsenger seat.

The socialist fraternal kiss/embrace is a special form of greeting between leaders of Communist countries. The greeting usually consist of both cheek kisses and embracing one another but mouth kisses are rare. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker exchange kisses after Brezhnev was honored with the title “Hero of the German Democratic Republic” and the “Karl Marx Medal" during the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany in 1979. The famous fraternal kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker  went viral through magazine spreads around the world. They marketed the photo with the famous caption “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love.” There were many leaders that used this ritual but this one in particular received massive attention because photographer Regis Bossu caught it at the right moment. The two men seemed to kiss passionately in the photograph which caused the public to react.
Anthony Blunt had made an appearance to this event after laying low from the public after newly elected prime mister  Margaret Thatcher outed him for being the fourth man in the Cambridge five men spy ring. During World War II he leaked information to the Soviet Union betraying his people. He was originally apart of MI5(Military intelligence, section 5) but after the announcement of his betrayal to Britain he got his knighthood taken away. He later became a famous art historian post-war. Blunt was recruited by Guy Burgess to the NKVD ( People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, former Soviet Union under Stalin) as a spy in 1934 after he visited the Soviet Union in 1933. Blunt said in his public confession that it was Burgess who converted him to the Soviet cause, after both had left Cambridge. Since he confessed in 1964 he was offered immunity from prosecution because he confessed to being a Soviet spy. He was also a homosexual and during that time it was crime. He was laying low out of public eye after 1979 because it was publicly announced that he was a traitor. He shocked everyone by showing up to this event!

The Beatles

Here we have The Beatles as Hasidic Jews. The Beatles are widely known to be mostly Roman Catholic (or raised that way) and I thought it would be interesting if that wasn't true. They all have either a traditional hat or beard that normally go with the religion. As I was working on this I started to consider how this could've affected their rise to fame and whether they would've been able to attain everything they did with this slightly less boy band image. Also, in this life, Ringo Starr prefers his marimba to the guitar.

Ben Michaele

Since the time of swords and warlords, they have been there.

Hiding in plain sight as objects beyond our meager comprehension were used to control the course of history, the Templar Knights have stood as captains of industry, kings, and politicians as they attempted time and again to enforce their vision of the world upon us.  Borders and nations mean nothing to them as they rose again and again from the darkness to take center stage.  Only one has prevented their total domination, who hides behind the shadows as they wait to ensure that the Templars fall and take their machinations with them.  They work in the dark to serve the light, they...are the Assassins.

In this alternate reality of the Mexican War everything is completely changed. The 6 men in the photo General Emilio P. Campa and his Body guards take a picture in front of what could have been America’s Texas. Thanks to Generel Campa and his many men have won the Mexican American war now Texas is governed by Mexico. With this new outcome, Mexico is more powerful and now has what could have been America’s biggest state.